The CVE Inflation Bug ~ Bitcoin Op Tech #14

The Bitcoin Operations Technology Group (Optech) works to bring the best open source technologies and techniques to Bitcoin-using businesses in order to lower costs and improve customer experiences.
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This week’s newsletter includes action items and news related to last week’s security release of Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Core 0.17RC4, popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin StackExchange over the past month, and short descriptions of notable merges made to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2018/09/25/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2018/09/20/notice/
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/79481/how-does-the-most-recently-found-critical-vulnerability-cve-2018-17144-work/79484#79484
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/79167/why-doesn-t-bitcoin-use-udp-to-do-blockpropagation/79175#79175
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/77853/what-prevents-someone-from-tainting-the-coin-tumbling-pool-of-the-wasabi-wallet/78654#78654
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/79472/what-is-is-minimum-possible-number-for-an-ecdsa-private-key

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